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If the British really are imperialist pigs, a bullying “colonial power” that stripped the “Malvinas” of their “territorial integrity,” then the denizens of the Falklands appear to like the usurpation.

In early March, the British government in Westminster reiterated that those living on the much-fought-over islands had a “right to self-determination, including their right to remain British if that is their wish.” It was, by a vote of 99.8 percent.

In the plebiscite, 92 percent of eligible voters cast ballots and only three people voted against British rule. “We are not a colony,” Assemblyman Barry Elsby told CNN. “Our relationship with the United Kingdom is by choice.”

Argentine saber-rattling over the islands tends to be the product of domestic strife, and Cristina Kirchner is seeking to deflect attention from her government’s being rebuked for incompetence and corruption by the World Bank and the IMF.

— The editors of National Review, writing in the magazine’s April 8 issue